Chemical Elements in Plants and Soil: Parameters Controlling Essentiality - Fränzle, Stefan; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
From the contents Introduction -- 1. The biological System of Elements. 1.1. Principles of Element Distribution in Plants. 1.2. Methodology of Inquiries into the Biological System of Elements -- 2. Autocatalytic Processes and the Role of Essential Elements in Plant Growth. 2.1. Biomass Stability in the Light of Gibbs's Phase Rule. 2.2. Coordination-Chemical Control of Element Uptake. 2.3. Some Remarks on Chemical Ecology -- 3. A Causal Model of Biochemical Essentiality. 3.1. Influence of Intrinsic Bonding Stability and Ligand Sensitivity on the Biocatalytic Properties of Metal Ions. 3.2. Complex Stability in Relation to other Bioorganic Parameters. 3.3. Scope of the Essentiality Model -- 4. The Evolution of Essentiality. 4.1. Evolution and Biochemical Catalysis. 4.2. The Three-Function-Rule as a Controlling Factor in the Origins of Essentiality. 4.3. Biogeochemical Fractionation Processes and essentiality Patterns in Different Taxa under Changing Biogeochemical Boundary Conditions -- References.
Keywords: Analytical chemistry; Inorganic chemistry; Biochemistry; Plant biochemistry; Molecular ecology; Environmental monitoring; Analytical Chemistry; Inorganic Chemistry; Biochemistry, general; Plant Biochemistry; Molecular Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis